[sdevonoes]

> Learn to code and then Google will surely hire you and pay you $250k right off the bat

Weird. In EU, 99% of graduates didn’t (don’t) have that in mind… A fresh graduate in CS typically earns less than 40-50K (even less depending on the country).

So USA is now like the EU?

[ForHackernews]

No, USA is not like the EU because everything still costs American prices.

[reverius42]

And because the employed software engineers still make way, way more than that, but the number of unemployed who make $0 is increasing (and that set may soon be full of fresh graduates).

[melvinroest]

It has been for a while I suspect.